{"114881":{"#nid":"114881","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"Population slow down an ill omen: Prof Nancey Green Leigh sees Atlanta\u0027s potential to grow from within","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EBefore the recession, the 10-county metro core was adding 100,000 people a year. That\u0027s contracted by two-thirds, to an average of 34,000 a year for the past three years, according to the Atlanta Regional Commission.\u0026nbsp; . . .Nancey Green Leigh, a professor of city and regional planning at Georgia Tech, sees wisdom in metro Atlanta growing from within, instead of depending so much on an influx of people and corporations. \u0022You need to look at the skills you have in the labor force, and match that,\u0022 she said. \u0022We shouldn\u0027t omit ideas that tie into university resources, new technologies, new inventions . . . It\u0027s time to take stock and strengthen the weaknesses.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27215","created_gmt":"2012-03-06 19:55:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:25:26","author":"Mike Alberghini","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"big tech","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/ajc20120301_12.pdf","dateline":{"date":"2012-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2012-03-01T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1224","name":"School of City \u0026 Regional Planning"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"9772","name":"nancey green leigh"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}